In a message dated 7/2/2008 6:40:19 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cousins_gerry at msn.com writes: ....I always wondered which standard a person was referring to when describing their perfect pitch. Pre 1920’s A-435? Post 1920’s A-440? New a-442? 443, 445? European? Eastern? Other? Right on the mark, Gerry. My Music Theory prof in college (even some 40 years ago) would not let us use the term "perfect pitch." She herself used "pitch recognition" (the ability to name a note with any degree of accuracy) which is in turn based on "pitch memory" (the ability to remember and reproduce pitches with some degree of accuracy, and which, incidentally, she had in spades). She thus nicely skirted arguments about the word "perfect," since there are all degrees of pitch memory, some better than others. "Pitch recognition" is based on the ability to remember artificially-named arbitrary bands of frequencies, like A=440, A=435, etc., or for that matter, A=whatever-their-piano-was-tuned-to. No one is born with an absolute "A", since there isn't one. Whether one is born with the ability to remember pitches, or learns it, I'll leave for others to answer. Bob Davis **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080702/4c408029/attachment.html
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